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15 Creamy Custard and Pudding Cakes

Updated September 21, 2022
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Chocolate Tiramisu Poke Cake
Credit: Daniel Agee

The magical combination of pudding or custard and cake in one recipe results in a cake more moist and flavorful than any standard chocolate or vanilla cake, angel food cake, or even pound cake. These cakes don't need piles of sugary icing because they already have dynamic flavor. Each bite is a combination of warm cake and rich filling; creating an irresistible texture. If you want a decadent dessert with a simple recipe, a custard or pudding cake is sure to satisfy. 

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Chocolate Tiramisu Poke Cake

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Credit: Daniel Agee
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The poke cake technique is incredibly easy, but that doesn't mean that poke cakes have a simple flavor. Enjoy the irresistible textures of pudding, cake, and crushed espresso beans in each bite of with this chocoatey take on Tiramisu.

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Vanilla Buttermint Poke Cake with Buttercream Frosting

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This sweet poke cake looks and tastes just like Christmastime. It's everything you love texture-wise about a poke cake, but it's also delightfully soft and minty with a gorgeous pure white color palate. End your holiday dinners with a buttermint-- in cake form!

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Strawberry-Banana Pudding Icebox Cake

Strawberry-Banana Pudding Icebox Cake
Credit: Iain Bagwell; Prop Styling: Mindi Shapiro Levine; Food Styling: Hadas Smirnoff
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Strawberries add brightness to this fun take on banana pudding. Instead of the usual vanilla wafers, use graham crackers, which make neater slices. An instant hit with your family and guests, this recipe makes delicious use of the fresh strawberries you pick up at the local farmers' market.

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Salted Caramel Gingerbread Poke Cake with Pumpkin Cream Cheese Frosting

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The flavors of gingerbread, salted caramel filling, and pumpkin cream cheese frosting marry to become the ultimate fall and holiday poke cake. This cake is a great snack cake or dessert and it's pretty enough to serve to guests. One taste and you're sure to bring this cake to potlucks all season long.

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Strawberry Poke Pound Cake with Strawberry Glaze

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Credit:  Kelsey Hansen; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Audrey Davis
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Poke cake meets pound cake in this must-make spring dessert. A perfectly moist, dense vanilla pound cake (with a delightful hint of almond) is filled with a fresh strawberry filling—adding to the cake's tender crumb and providing the perfect fruity sweet-tart flavor balance. Finish the whole thing off with an eye-catching fresh strawberry glaze, and you have a supremely awesome cake on your hands. Be warned, if you share this pound cake with friends, you'll need to be ready to share the recipe as well.

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Eggnog Magic Cake

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Finally, eggnog you can eat. One magic cake batter transforms into two layers when baked and chilled: a cake layer and a custard layer. This dessert looks difficult to make, but is actully simple with easy-to-find ingredients. Try it topped with boozy whipped cream, made by whipping heavy cream and bourbon until stiff peaks form. 

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Plum Upside-Down Pudding Cake

Plum Upside-Down Pudding Cake
Credit: Tara Sgroi; Styling: Angie Mosier
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Juicy plum and vanilla flavors combine to create this delicious upside-down cake. Pudding adds texture to this cake, not icing, so the plum flavor can shine through the subtle sweetness and the natural color of the plums decorate the gorgeous top. Use red or black plus, according to preference. 

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Banana Caramel Pudding Cake

Banana Caramel Pudding Cake
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This cake is similar to a very decadent banana bread with the addition of rich caramel flavor. The texture is wonderfully moist- not quite cake, and not quite pudding. It's already done cooking when the center springs back to the touch. Serve while still warm with vanilla ice cream. 

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Apple Cream Torte

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A cream torte is like a cross between a cake, a custard, and a dutch baby. The tender-sweet varieties of apples used here soften more readily than some when baked, making them a better match for the delicate cake. Look for Northern California and Northwest varieties at your local grocery store or farmers' market from August through November. Five great Western apple varieties in the Cameo, Gravenstein, Ida Red, Pink Pearl, and Sierra Beauty.

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Chocolate-Cherry Pudding Cake

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As the cake bakes, it separates into two layers, a tender chocolate spongelike cake and a rich chocolate-cherry sauce.

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Molten Chocolate-Nutella Pudding Cakes

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Sweet and tasty from the semisweet chocolate and Nutella, this dessert is part cake and part pudding. Serve warm with a side of vanilla ice cream for the ultimate dessert.

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Raspberry Lemon Pudding Cakes

Raspberry Lemon Pudding Cakes
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"This light and tangy lemon dessert satisfies my longing for lemon pie," said reader Jeanette Hennings about her original version of this recipe. We added loads of berries for a more summery take. The tender berry cake rises to the top, and the creamy lemon cake sinks to the bottom.

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Rhubarb Pudding Cake

Rhubarb Pudding Cake
Credit: Karry Hosford
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Tender, lightly spiced vanilla cake covers a layer of juicy rhubarb. The batter may not cover all of the fruit, but it spreads as the pudding cake bakes.

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Berry Pudding Cake

Berry Pudding Cake
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This tender cake bakes over sweet berries, creating a juicy, cobbler-like dessert. Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, if desired.

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Rum-Soaked Sponge Cake with Tropical Fruit

Rum-Soaked Sponge Cake with Tropical Fruit
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Both the cake and fruit mixture chill overnight so the cake can absorb the rum and the sugar can soften and sweeten the fruit. A thin layer of custard tops the moist cake.

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    1 of 15 Chocolate Tiramisu Poke Cake
    2 of 15 Vanilla Buttermint Poke Cake with Buttercream Frosting
    3 of 15 Strawberry-Banana Pudding Icebox Cake
    4 of 15 Salted Caramel Gingerbread Poke Cake with Pumpkin Cream Cheese Frosting
    5 of 15 Strawberry Poke Pound Cake with Strawberry Glaze
    6 of 15 Eggnog Magic Cake
    7 of 15 Plum Upside-Down Pudding Cake
    8 of 15 Banana Caramel Pudding Cake
    9 of 15 Apple Cream Torte
    10 of 15 Chocolate-Cherry Pudding Cake
    11 of 15 Molten Chocolate-Nutella Pudding Cakes
    12 of 15 Raspberry Lemon Pudding Cakes
    13 of 15 Rhubarb Pudding Cake
    14 of 15 Berry Pudding Cake
    15 of 15 Rum-Soaked Sponge Cake with Tropical Fruit

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